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<i></i> kills my IE JS navigation buttons

(Please don't laugh)
If you look at http://www.petalsandpatches.com/applique.htm in both IE and FF you will note that in IE the navigation buttons are missing (not quite true. The upermost button is 1/2 present).
After some investigation I discovered that it is <i>..</i> around some certain text that is doing it viz. if I remove the <i></i> the buttons are back.

There is an outer block, the header, a body block, left column and a column called cont (actually a right column). The left column is the navigation column using JS. The right column contains the site content. The text shown is a little explanatory text I put in a couple of years after the site went live. The italics in question are shown.
Why would/should the <i></i> apparently cause so much trouble, although the font size is different between the paragraphs? I will not discount that it might be the <p></p> as well.